What will you do with that extra last second?

Tick tock ... tick - Extra second added to 2008

Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:22pm GMT
By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Those eager to put 2008 behind them will have to hold their good-byes for just a moment this New Year's Eve.

The world's official timekeepers have added a "leap second" to the last day of the year on Wednesday, to help match clocks to the Earth's slowing spin on its axis, which takes place at ever-changing rates affected by tides and other factors.

The U.S. Naval Observatory, keeper of the Pentagon's master clock, said it would add the extra second on Wednesday in coordination with the world's atomic clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC.

That corresponds to 6:59:59 p.m. EST (23:59:59 GMT), when an extra second will tick by -- the 24th to be added to UTC since 1972, when the practice began.


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They added an extra second?? There is no chance I will be able to stay awake to see in the New Year now.

I'm sure I will get screwed out of that extra seconds pay. Damn corporate greed and all.

i just bought the Y2K9 software to protect my PC

Madison wrote:

i just bought the Y2K9 software to protect my PC

OH NO!!! What will the rest of us do?